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The Assiento contract consider'd. : As also, the advantages and decay of the trade of Jamaica and the plantations, with the causes and consequences thereof. In several letters to a member of Parliament

by: Wood, William, active 1714-1736

Publication date: 1714

Topics: Great Britain. Treaties, etc. Spain, 1713 March 26, Spain. Treaties, etc. Great Britain, 1713 March 26, South Sea Company, Slave trade -- Jamaica, Great Britain -- Commerce -- Spain -- Colonies, Spain -- Colonies -- Commerce -- Great Britain, Jamaica -- Commerce, Imprint 1714

Publisher: London: : Printed: and sold by Ferd. Burleigh in Amen-Corner.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

[10], 50 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

Attributed to William Wood by the Institute of Jamaica and others

Also issued as part of: Occasional papers on the Assiento, and the affairs of Jamaica, London, 1716

The Asiento de Negros was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide African slaves to colonies in the Spanish Americas. The South Sea Company received the Asiento for thirty years, from May 1713 to May, 1743. The English contractor was required to advance 200,000 pesos (£45,000) to Philip for their share in the trade, to be paid in two equal installments, the first two months after the contract was signed, the second two months after the first. In addition, the company was allowed to send one ship of 500 tons annually to Portobello to engage in normal trade to avoid contraband

Signatures: pi² (-pi2) (pi1 verso blank) A-D⁸ E² (-E2)

Errata: foot of page 50

Purchase; 06378